Sergio Kardenas

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Promoting his music CD "The Time Machine" and working on his new film Cafe '65 [July 2011]

The Slayer Bureaucrat' won The Audience Award Prize at the Arizona Underground Film Festival in 2009. I knew that I was on the right track". I am now at work on my second film 'Cafe a Go-Go. '" In addition to film making, modeling and acting, Sergio has been a well-published photographer.

" Sergio began his photography career in November of 1987. That was the first time he was paid for his photography. "My first magazine work was in People magazine. It was a photo of Arnold Schwartezeneger, that I took for Planet Hollywood, in Mexico. The photo was credited as being 'Courtesy of Planet Hollywood,' but it was my photograph, and I knew that I wanted to see more of my photos in print," Sergio recalls. Amongst his celebrity models have been the legendary singer and rock figure Angela Bowie, world-famous drag queen Lady Bunny, Pat Benatar, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis (for Planet Hollywood), Guillermo Diaz of Showtime's Weeds, and Randy Jones--the original cowboy of The Village People. According to Sergio, "It was filmmaker and photographer Peter Berlin who originally encouraged me to take my strong visual sense--which I put into still photography for years--to cinema. "When 'La Funcionaria Asesina a. k. a.

Sergio Kardenas was born in Mexico City in 1973, His father was a rock musician in the 1960s; who did a couple records with his own band, and a LP with RCA Records. However he gave up his singing career when he married Sergio's mother.